This or That.

[CORP$EY]

'The percussion is dry and restless and the bassline is shark-like, while the background atmosphere swirls hypnotically.

Shark-like?

"Radiant" slams harder, but the intensity is leavened by chords that bounce sweetly through the track's cavernous spaces, sending up dust clouds of reverb behind them.

An interesting thing is to note how writers (myself included) tend to write physically about music as if the music itself is a physical structure (and not just in the sense of the sound of a kick drum and a synth). Writing about music becomes not dancing about but writing about architecture.

Here's an example of me doing something like that:

From its outset, Slow Knife beams us back into the familiar Kuedo cosmos, with gorgeous synths, drifting like nebulae alongside those fluttering hi-hats.

Disappointed with myself reading this - the nebulae is excusable and perhaps evocative, but the 'fluttering' hi-hats don't fit metaphorically. It makes you think of birds, not stars.

And 'alongside', too - structural, and inaccurately, limply so. Should have been (if it had to be) 'drifting below/above/amidst'... D'OH

FINALLY: I hope it was my editor and not me that put in that superfluous comma.

 

[blissblogger]

isn't flutter actually a drummer term for something hi-hats do? i'm sure i interviewed someone (not a drummer actually but something who programmed drum tracks) and they used the short hand "flutter"

the flutter of a insect's wing - or an eyelash - does actually quite well correspond to the sound of a hi-hat - something opening and closing rapidly

 

[blissblogger]

being of a certain age, all this talk of "bounce" unavoidably reminds me of the Monty Python sketch where "bouncy bouncy" means sex - as in, "would you like come back to my place for some bouncy bouncy"

 

[Corpsey]

Thanks blissblogger!

Always struggled with describing hi hats, as a rap reviewer, them being so key to trap music in particular

I usually went with 'rattled' for an open goal machine gun analogy

 

[CORP$EY]

being of a certain age, all this talk of "bounce" unavoidably reminds me of the Monty Python sketch where "bouncy bouncy" means sex - as in, "would you like come back to my place for some bouncy bouncy"

Bouncing is definitely sexual beyond a certain age

When you're a kid bouncing is a big part of life - bouncy castles, bouncing balls, bouncing up and down with energy and optimism

Then your hormones kick in and its bouncy boobs, bouncy ballbags, bouncing bottoms and occasionally bouncing up and down because you really need a piss

 

[CORP$EY]

exactly! and now what does that exclude? as a picture of the universe it's incomplete. by excluding some elements they can create miacles but becasue it excludes it's always in danger of toppling when you introduce the excluded element. return of the repressed.

Music that (without saying it) fetishises technological progress, digital cleanliness and brightness, artificiality

The repressed being the loneliness the technology creates, the sense of unreality and alienation - and of creeping superfluousness vs. the rise of the robots

And the anger and fear that exists 'outside' of technology (though fueled by it), the spectre of environmental catastrophe

---

Listened to an interview with Adam Curtis about a year ago (I'm sure i've mentioned this) in which he proposes that Burial's music might represent the return of a repressed romanticism in an era of data, statistics, algorithims.

 

[luka]

The repressed being the loneliness the technology creates, the sense of unreality and alienation

some of the vapuorwavey stuff does this so well i cant listen to it. it makes me feel too wierd.

 

[CORP$EY]

and since this thread is about sex, too, what about sex in the computer age?

'our eyes met across a crowded app'

 

[sadmanbarty]

and since this thread is about sex, too, what about sex in the computer age?

'our eyes met across a crowded app'

i've got a long distance thing with this girl who was saying how whenever she dreams about us kissing there's always an object between us. last time it was a table we were leaning over. she thought it was symbolic of facetime; the phone screen coming between us. that's how i feel about us corpse

 

[CORP$EY]

 

[CrowleyHead]

Just watched this over the weekend actually, fun times!

 

[CORP$EY]

Comic masterpiece

 

[luka]

barty forced me to get drunk and smoke cigerettes yesterday afternoon and now ive lost all my psychic powers. this thread is doomed. all i can think about is fried food and melted cheese.

 

[yyaldrin]

i think he's a bad influence on you

 

[sadmanbarty]

i popped round for a quick chat and before i knew it the whiskey was out and he had is arm round me telling me he loved me.

 

[sadmanbarty]

i was the victim not the culprit.

 

[CrowleyHead]

and since this thread is about sex, too, what about sex in the computer age?

'our eyes met across a crowded app'

We're getting there.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/trbwqF0d7NA" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>

You said I'm full of diseases
Your eyes were full of regret
and then you took a picture, loving your salad
and put it on the internet.

Or to ensure I have samples that don't sonically make the board shudder

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UtAFNq4i9gc" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I stay tuned, and listen to the news
and try to fall asleep at night.

Because I'm living in a house with just 3 walls so,
I'm always getting recognized.

An abstract statement, but for anyone who lives 'online' now, you're never hidden away for sure and a very "Surveillance" view of living which we all go through when we transmit all the time. So even at home you're inevitably leaving a permanent view as you and your daily life become broken into.

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

and since this thread is about sex, too, what about sex in the computer age?

original analog version

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

little known fact: 4 Hero's "Golden Age" was a paean to the golden age of Rob Schneider comedy

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

(sorry I don't have anything of value to contribute, just stopping by for a couple bad jokes. good work all, tho.)